Medical Laboratory Scientist
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Job overview
The Medical Laboratory Scientist performs complex laboratory testing and provides accurate, timely results that support patient diagnosis and treatment. The role analyzes specimens, operates and maintains instruments, interprets results, and conducts quality control across laboratory disciplines. It also supports patient care through clinical correlation, critical-value notification, proficiency testing, and compliant validation documentation.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Medical Lab Scientist, you will be a critical diagnostic expert, performing complex laboratory tests to ensure accurate, timely results vital for patient diagnosis and treatment.
Every day, you will execute a wide range of analytical procedures across various lab disciplines (hematology, chemistry, microbiology, etc.). You'll analyze specimens, operate/maintain instruments, interpret results, and conduct quality control, providing crucial data for clinical decisions.
To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate a strong scientific foundation, advanced technical proficiency, exceptional problem-solving skills, and meticulous attention to detail. Your paramount commitment will be to accuracy and regulatory adherence.
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Performs and reports waived, moderately complex, and highly complex test procedures on patient specimens adhering to the Section’s Standard Operating Procedures to ensure accurate and timely reporting
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Provides excellent patient care through clinical correlation of results, identification of patterns of bias, rapid notification of appropriate caregivers of critical values, and completion of testing within established turn-around-time limits
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Ensures that major automated equipment is operational by performing required maintenance, calibration and troubleshooting procedures; including contacting of instrument vendor for assistance or repair
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Performs required calibration and quality control procedures and maintains records to ensure tests are being performed within established parameters
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Performs proficiency testing as assigned and review results with laboratory clinical leaders
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Assists in evaluation and generation of compliant documentation for the validation of new procedures and equipment to provide the physician with the most current laboratory technology
Job Requirements
Required
- Bachelors Of Science in a biological or chemical science as defined by CLIA., upon hire
Preferred
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Clinical Laboratory Scientist, upon hire or
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Clinical Laboratory Technologist, upon hire or
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Technologist in Molecular Biology, upon hire or
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Medical Laboratory Scientist - Med Technologist, upon hire or
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Medical Technologist AAB, upon hire or
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Technologist in Microbiology, upon hire or
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Medical Technologist AMT, upon hire or
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Specialist in Hematology, upon hire or
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Specialist in Microbiobiology, upon hire or
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Med Technologist - ASCP, upon hire or
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Histotechnologist, upon hire
Where You'll Work
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 1,045 bed facility located in the Texas medical center. A joint venture with Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor St. Luke’s is an internationally recognized leader in research and clinical excellence that has given rise to breakthroughs in cardiovascular care, neuroscience, oncology, transplantation, and more. The hospital is home to the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally-accredited and NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center. Our new McNair Campus is designed around the human experience—modeled on evidence-based practices for the safety of patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. The 27.5-acre campus represents the future of healthcare through a transformative alliance focused on leading-edge patient care, research, and education.
Pay Range
$33.00 - $33.00 /hour
We are an equal opportunity employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,170 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$33/hr
- Texas median$31–43/hr21 hourly ranges
- US median$30–47/hr521 hourly ranges
This rate, $33/hr, is 7% below the Texas median midpoint ($36/hr) — in the middle half of Medical Laboratory Scientist hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 112 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs in Texas and 1,170 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare25 open
- Houston Methodist18 open
- Baylor Scott & White Health16 open
- Experience
- Medical Laboratory Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (418 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 553 of the 1,170 open Medical Laboratory Scientist jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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